#meaningless

I learned enough Hebrew to stagger through a meaningless ceremony that I scarcely remember. ↗

— David Antin

#enough #hebrew #i #learned #meaningless

To get art nowadays, in cinema or books or anything, that grapples with the possibility of a meaningless universe... it just doesn't happen any more. In even the most indie of the indie films, everything has to come to some kind of neat conclusion. ↗

— Emily Mortimer

#anything #art #books #cinema #come

After a certain point, money is meaningless. It ceases to be the goal. The game is what counts. ↗

— Aristotle Onassis

#after #ceases #certain #certain point #counts

Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history. ↗

— Octavio Paz

#also #contrary #deprivation #expression #feeling

Chance doesn't mean meaningless randomness, but historical contingency. This happens rather than that, and that's the way that novelty, new things, come about. ↗

— John Polkinghorne

#chance #come #contingency #happens #historical

I don't feel I have to write deep and meaningful songs; they can be light and meaningless. It has to do with the place I am in my life, a really good place. ↗

— Neil Diamond

#deep #feel #good #good place #i

Academics act like they are important, but when something is academic it is meaningless. People say, 'It's academic, now let's get work done.' ↗

— Evan Sayet

#academics #act #done #get #important

So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half-asleep, even when they're busy doing things they think are important. This is because they're chasing the wrong things. ↗

— Morrie Schwartz

#because #busy #chasing #doing #even

I vowed that whenever my family needed me, I would give up everything to go to them, no matter what. The show must go on was meaningless to me. ↗

— Kate Smith

#family #give #go #i #matter

Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential. ↗

— William Thomas

#deal #fact #her #his #important